Ben Burtt
Birthday: 1948-07-12 | Place of Birth: Jamesville, New York, USABenjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is a sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He has worked as sound designer on various films, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, WALL-E, and Star Trek. He is responsible for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the binary speech of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum, the sound of the blaster guns, and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader, which he made by breathing into a scuba regulator. Burtt has a reputation for popularizing a sound effect dubbed the "Wilhelm scream", which was taken from a character named Wilhelm in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River.
Known For
Acting
Role
as BD-1 (voice)
as Himself
as Self
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Self
as WALL-E/M-O
as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
as WALL·E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
as WALL•E (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
